The Soul of Rung Blood - S3
We return to our party as Luci has just fallen through the floor of a room while exploring on his own. As he falls, he finds himself in a room beneath the floor above, but is quickly downed before being able to do much exploring by the oozes that scatter the space. Meanwhile, above, T attempts to learn something about the statues in another room, but fails to gather any knowledge. The party then turns to search for Luci, who has not reappeared from the room he went to explore. After a few looks into the room to no avail, Alda decides to gather a little more information about the statues, while T and Braruk try to make it across the room to the lever.
T makes it a little farther across the room before falling through the floor, revealing the floor to be illusory. In the room below, he finds Luci, currently fighting for his life. Braruk follows suit, but with a high perception check, he notices a ladder down to below the floor. He climbs down and finds a chest containing a Journal 2, two +1 short swords, and some essence. T and Braruk both engage the oozes, but are both quickly downed Alda explores the statue room and notices the arms on the statues move and can be put in an up or down position. With a Nat 20, Alda finds that maybe making the statues arms match seems like the right answer, but that doesn’t make sense. There may be some trickery afoot. As Alda comes within an inch of solving the statue puzzle, Luci fails his final death save and the party slips from life. Waking up at the fire, the party decide to take a long rest and finally levels up to level 2! They quickly and efficiently destroy the skeletons in the hall, and make their way to the zombie room. A quick run in a circle draws all of the enemies to the doors, the the party kills them all. With the attitude of “fuck it”, they decide to attack the beholder, thinking if they die they can level up anyway. Incredibly, after some lucky nat 20’s, the party manages to kill the beholder without taking a single point of damage.
After a short rest, the party decides to tackle the statue room. After changing the arms around, they hit the switch, but instead of doors unlocking, the lights go out and they hear the sound of moving stone. In the darkness, the are attacked by the statues, now revealed as weeping angels. Braruk figures out they cannot move in light, but unfortunately it was too late as Luci once again succumbed to death after having his life drained from the Angels. After a quick level up to 3, the party heads back to the angel room, and realizes the doors were never locked. They enter the room to the south, and find the shop they had seen previously! They also find journal 7 at a bonfire after taking a rest. Waking up, they engage with the shopkeeper named Patchy. After some bartering, they get a +1 great sword and information that they can just hit the angels in the room while the lights on and kill them. The party does just that, clearing the room. They head into the hallway to the west, finding a large door with a mysterious skeleton lock, and that is where we find our party presently….
